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Why Your Night Vision Baby Monitor Feed Looks Paranormal

We're exactly 42 minutes into what the internet brutally refers to as the nine-month sleep regression, and my son's night vision monitor feed looks less like a peaceful nursery and more like found footage from a Roswell crash site. His...

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The american baby austin film fest buzz and maternal isolation

Room four was always the coldest in pediatric triage. I used to pull my fleece jacket tight while taking vitals, but the teenage girl sitting on the exam table didn't seem to notice the chill. She was nineteen, thirty-six weeks...

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The honest guide to personalized baby gifts

I was three days postpartum, sitting on the floor of my Chicago apartment in mesh underwear, weeping openly over a cardboard box. My aunt had sent a gift. It was a massive, aggressively pink velvet pillow, roughly the size of...

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Real Geschenk fΓΌr Mutter zur Geburt: What Moms Actually Want

Before I had my son Leo, three completely different people cornered me with their brilliant gifting strategies for my impending motherhood. My sweet but clinically insane coworker Susan handed me this massive, scratchy, hot-pink tulle tutu in the breakroom and...

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LΓ€tzchen fΓΌr Erwachsene: Why My Stance on Adult Bibs Changed

Tuesday night. Mashed sweet potato on the wall. A spreading tea stain. It's the classic sandwich generation clichΓ© brought to life in my dining room. I'm cutting grapes into symmetrical quarters for my toddler while simultaneously pretending I don't see...

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The Truth About Why Every Parent Needs a Babydecke Merinowolle

It was a Tuesday, I think. Honestly, those first few weeks are a blurry hallucination, but I remember I was wearing my black maternity leggingsβ€”the ones with a faint spit-up stain on the left knee that had been there since...

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Why Spielbogen AnhΓ€nger Don't Need to Be a Vegas Light Show

My mother-in-law meant well when she handed me a massive cardboard box wrapped in pastel elephant paper. I ripped it open and stared at a neon plastic contraption that looked like a miniaturized carnival ride. It had six different blinking...

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What a Screaming Backyard Wild Bird Taught Me About Motherhood

It was 102 degrees in the shade, the kind of Texas summer afternoon where the air feels like hot soup and you sweat just blinking, and I was up to my elbows in diaper cream when the back screen door...

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The Honest Truth About Buying a Baby Pouf for Your Nursery

It’s 3:17 AM, and I'm physically stuck in a velvet floor cushion. My mother-in-law insisted this giant, overstuffed monstrosity was a nursery absolute necessity, and right now I'm trying to extract my left leg from its sinking depths without waking...

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